Affect, risk perception and future optimism after the tsunami disaster

Environmental events such as natural disasters may influence the public's affective reactions and decisions. Shortly after the 2004 Tsunami disaster we assessed how affect elicited by thinking about this disaster influenced risk perceptions and future time perspective in Swedish undergraduates...

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Main Authors: Daniel Vastfjall, Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2008-01-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/bb6.pdf